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Tiease's Focus on Shibuya, Japan!

In Tokyo, there are some really uncultivated new fashions debuted on the sidewalks daily.There is a drizzling assortment of styles, cultures, subcultures so it gets really overwhelming sometimes but never dull!  Fashionistas & fashion freaks are a dime a dozen however sometimes there are  new fashion statements that even catch my eye.

You have probably noticed and pondered about the area of Tokyo's frequently photographed & often featured shopping district seen around the world with its distinctive symmetrical "Y" shaped intersecting street. You probably noticed the energetic confusion, neon light, tall building, Outlandish fashions, unbelievable fads, huge flat screen televisions etc... all icons of the district known as Shibuya. Shibuya is an exciting & chaotic fashion shopping area of Tokyo that is guaranteed to capture your attention & imagination.

Like in the USA, Paris, Italy (Milan) etc.. each season brings new style changes and fresh trends & subcultures come and go, in addition to various designer brands which can be hot today and dead cold tomorrow! 

Shibuya is the shopping district which surrounds Shibuya Station, one of Tokyo's busiest railway stations. This area is a well known leading fashion area with an exhilarating array of stores, specialty shops, restaurants, traditional dance studio, little secret places to set your spirit free. The Shibuya fashion district is vogue hit especially with young women, and the area flaunts a boss night-life. Tokyu (which sounds like 10–9 in Japanese). 

The contemporary fashion scene in Shibuya extends northward from Shibuya Station to Harajuku, where youth culture reigns; Omotesandō, the zelkova tree- and fashion brand-lined street; and Sendagaya, Tokyo's apparel design district. It will take much more than this one article to fully appreciate what the area has to offer but it is worth looking into.

Shibuya has achieved great popularity among young and mature people in the last 30 years. There are many famous fashion department stores in Shibuya. Shibuya 109 is a major shopping center near Shibuya Station, particularly famous as the origin of the kogal subculture. Called "Ichi-Maru-kyū," which translates as 1–0–9 in Japanese, the name is actually a pun on that of the corporation that owns it.  Shibuya includes many well-known commercial and residential districts such as Daikanyama, Ebisu, Harajuku, Hiroo, Higashi, Omotesandō, Sendagaya, and Yoyogi.

It just goes to show that fashion flows into every culture freely and never stops asking, "What if."

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